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rjohns39 said:
I'm a super taster. DW is a super smellier. I can't stand the stench of smoke in the house so I smoke on the deck.
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rjohns39 said:
I was born on Easter Sunday 1960
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Okay, you could be my kid. If someone like me can quit, so can you. Okay, I'll mind my own business. :oops:
 
Casinos and a few other places here still allow smoking, although there are pretty strict laws for most public places. Here most of the casinos are owned by the Native Americans of that particular area, and not subject to all local laws.

Personally, it's a toss-up for me which is worse...walking into a cloud of cigarette smoke for the 15 seconds it takes to walk past someone standing outside a building, or having someone sit down behind me in a restaurant so dunked in perfume that from the second they get there my entire meal tastes like whatever they bathed in and I leave there smelling like they smelled when they walked in. I know the dangers of second-hand smoke...I get it. But for someone with asthma, or someone like Bruce's daughter who is extremely sensitive to perfumes and chemicals, that perfume cloud can be just as deadly. The only difference is while I can't -and wouldn't anyway - light up in an elevator and put someone at risk, and while I'm standing outside because it's not legal for me to smoke indoors, that fru-fru smelling person is free to wander around, stand behind me, sit in front of me, stay put, and there isn't a thing I can do about it. I agree 100% that there should be no smoking in any public area. But then to further decree that even outside is off limits is ridiculous. I know what I need to do - I'm paying for it spades right now. But this is something I have done for over 50 years. Every time I try to quit and fail, it makes me feel like I can't do anything right. No thanks....after all this time it's been done anyway.

Just me, I guess. I don't stand right in front of the doors to a business, I watch the breeze and make sure I'm away from anyone else, and I do not (nor have I ever in 54 years) stomped out or tossed a cigarette on the ground and walked away. Ma had no problem with us kids smoking, but she did have strict rules about how we did it. Probably makes no sense in this day and age, but I do get just a little tired of being the enemy and pariah while "they" criticize me and then single me out for a tax hit every time they need more money. Shoot, if all of us smokers quit tomorrow, like everyone claims we just have to do, states would be broke in a year. Nobody really wants us to quit - they need us and they feel bigger and smarter making us feel smaller. Lots of folks won't drink anything but Starbucks - put a sin tax on that as a health risk for the caffeine and the litter from the cups. Others will only drink bottled water...add an additional tax to each bottle because bottled water a convenience. If someone has a habit of any kind, throw some sin taxes on that instead of always slapping me. I punish myself quite enough...I don't need any help. A carton of smokes here in town costs around $65.00. On board the ship, while we are sailing in a duty free zone and can buy them without all the additional state and local taxes added, that same carton is $30.00.

Okay, off my soapbox. Sorry.
 
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Blooie said:
Casinos and a few other places here still allow smoking, although there are pretty strict laws for most public places. Here most of the casinos are owned by the Native Americans of that particular area, and not subject to all local laws.

Personally, it's a toss-up for me which is worse...walking into a cloud of cigarette smoke for the 15 seconds it takes to past someone standing outside a building, or having someone sit down behind me in a restaurant so dunked in perfume that from the second they get there my entire meal tastes like whatever they bathed in and I leave there smelling like they smelled when they walked in. I know the dangers of second-hand smoke...I get it. But for someone with asthma, or someone like Bruce's daughter who is extremely sensitive to perfumes and chemicals, that perfume cloud can be just as deadly. The only difference is while I can't -and wouldn't anyway - light up in an elevator and put someone at risk, and while I'm standing outside because it's not legal for me to smoke indoors, that fru-fru smelling person is free to wander around, stand behind me, sit in front of me, stay put, and there isn't a thing I can do about it. I agree 100% that there should be no smoking in any public area. But then to further decree that even outside is off limits is ridiculous.

Just me, I guess. I don't stand right in front of the doors to a business, I watch the breeze and make sure I'm away from anyone else, and I do not (nor have I ever in 54 years) stomped out or tossed a cigarette on the ground and walked away. Ma had no problem with us kids smoking, but she did have strict rules about how we did it. Probably makes no sense in this day and age, but I do get just a little tired of being the enemy and pariah while "they" criticize me and then single me out for a tax hit every time they need more money. Shoot, if all of us smokers quit tomorrow, like everyone claims we just have to do, states would be broke in a year. Nobody really wants us to quit - they need us and they feel bigger and smarter making us feel smaller. Lots of folks won't drink anything but Starbucks - put a sin tax on that as a health risk for the caffeine and the litter from the cups. Others will only drink bottled water...add an additional tax to each bottle because bottled water a convenience. If someone has a habit of any kind, throw some sin taxes on that instead of always slapping me. I punish myself quite enough...I don't need any help. A carton of smokes here in town costs around $65.00. On board the ship, while we are sailing in a duty free zone and can buy them without all the additional state and local taxes added, that same carton is $30.00.

Okay, off my soapbox. Sorry.
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Teila said:
Hey Blooie I do this every year, get confused! :confused:

Is yours today, your time? Tomorrow your time? The day after my time? Yesterday my time? :p :lau

Mine is tomorrow [30th] and I know we kind of celebrate at the same time. You are the 29th, which it is here today and now but I can't wish you a happy birthday yet because it is not there?

Anyone else confused now? :p
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Look...we're up to quadruplets! Mine is the 29th, whenever that is down under! :hugs
 

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